From patchwork Thu Dec 6 16:47:18 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Andrew Murray X-Patchwork-Id: 1008901 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 439hVf5QFXz9s55 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2018 03:52:58 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439hVf3svbzDrNn for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2018 03:52:58 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com X-Original-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=arm.com (client-ip=217.140.101.70; helo=foss.arm.com; envelope-from=andrew.murray@arm.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Received: from foss.arm.com (usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com [217.140.101.70]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439hNd5wpNzDrG3 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2018 03:47:45 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C93EBD; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 08:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from e119886-lin.cambridge.arm.com (unknown [10.37.6.11]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BC0293F5AF; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 08:47:39 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Murray To: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Shawn Guo , Sascha Hauer , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Thomas Gleixner , Borislav Petkov , Russell King , suzuki.poulose@arm.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, Michael Ellerman Subject: [PATCH v3 01/12] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:47:18 +0000 Message-Id: <1544114849-47266-2-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1544114849-47266-1-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com> References: <1544114849-47266-1-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com> X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: x86@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host and exclude_guest perf flags. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray --- tools/perf/design.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index a28dca2..0453ba2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/design.txt +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt @@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode. +Furthermore the 'exclude_host' and 'exclude_guest' bits provide a way +to request counting of events restricted to guest and host contexts when +using Linux as the hypervisor. + The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,